Kilometres south west of cape canaveral. Making its way across florida. The new leader has delivered his national address since he became leader injanuary. He called on the people of taiwan to be courageous and brave amid escalating tensions with china. He pledged to defend the island s sovereignty. It makes most of the well s advanced chips. Let s speak to a political scientist and assistant professor at taiwan university, and a nonresident fellow. Thank you forjoining me. First of all, the speech, what have you made of it, what do you see is the most important top lines? what we have often important top lines? what we have often heard important top lines? what we have often heard from important top lines? what we | have often heard from william lai since he came into office was a bit more of a snarky tone and how he addressed china and relations. We saw a tone change in the speech today where we saw far more pragmatic level headed language in regards to cross trade relat
Business headlines. Us Investment Firm Elliott Advisors has walked away from making a takeover bid for currys after being rejected by the retailers board in its own words multiple times. It had initially proposed an offer that valued the electricals chain at £700 million, and later raised it to 757 million. But currys rebuffed the approaches, saying they significantly undervalued the business. Currys could still receive a bid from chinasjd. Com, which said last month it was mulling an offerfor the firm. Earlier i spoke with russ mould, Investment Director at the stockbrokers aj bell. There is but it it will focus on what the two main shareholders in currys have got to say, redwheel and frasers. Any bid will have to get their approval and one can only assume that wasnt forthcoming this time. They said it undervalued the business. It is rare we are in a position where we are talking about a high street retailer at the centre of a possible bidding war. We thought that bricks and mortar w
in the house of commons, where we re expecting an urgent question to the home office on the implications of the national crime agency s investigation into mrjavad marandi. this comes after the bbc reported that javad marandi, a businessman whose foreign companies were part of a global money laundering investigation, is a major donor to the conservative party. the question has been tabled by snp mp alison thewliss. asking if the home secretary will respond or make a statement. we will head back the is should get any further developments. the british telecoms giant, vodafone, is to cut 11,000 jobs over the next three years as part of an overhaul to cut costs. the firm s new boss, margherita della valle, said its performance had not been good enough. posts will go at the company s headquarters in the uk and in other countries. our business reporter theo leggett has more. talk to us about what we know about the job losses, talk to us about what we know about thejob losses, 11,000
I thought, this is not a conflict that has got any place in the new millennium. If you want to solve it, you have to take that risk and talk to those who actually control the violence. Enemies compromised and differences were settled. This is a story ofjeopardy, dilemmas and leadership. Tony blair |think| theres a hope that ifeel the hand of history upon our shoulders. Kerrie and erin had never met before. If they had been from a previous generation, they probably wouldnt have met at all. But they were born on the day of a peace deal. We are very lucky that we grew up where we did after the Good Friday Agreement. Lived a very happy life so far, always enjoyed all my classes, loads of opportunities. They are in the newest cinema in Northern Ireland in a Shopping Centre in belfast, which was bombed five times in as many years. They are reflecting on scenes of bloodshed which they have never known. Very different than what i would have grown up in, two different worlds. Even hearing place